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Bet Aviv is an affordable, adult-oriented congregation affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism. We are an inclusive and caring community that strives to meet the diverse spiritual, religious, educational and social needs of our members through worship, study, service to our community, and social activities.
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Bet Aviv members met on a cold winter morning to craft a vision of their future in the next 3 - 5 years. Click here to read all about it.
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Sep 2, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Marla FeldmanDirector of Development, URJ Several months ago, I received a panicked email from our contact at the International Medical Corps, one of the URJ's grant recipients from...
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Sep 1, 2010 12:00 AM
by dcc I was recently asked by someone I very much respect to address "the" question. So I started to write the answer in a post...about five times without any luck....
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Aug 31, 2010 12:00 AM
by Arlene ChernowOutreach Specialist, Union for Reform Judaism Ah, the memories! The smells, the food, the cookies, the craft projects, the family decorating together, the company coming over to celebrate,...
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Aug 31, 2010 12:00 AM
by Jonathan "J.C." CohenDirector, URJ Henry S. Jacobs CampOriginally posted on the Jacobs Camp blog For more info, see Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans 5 Years Later With the five...
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Aug 31, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Now available from URJ Books & MusicOrder Now! ...Zebulun did not dispossess the inhabitants of Kitron or the...
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Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
by Leslie G. Woods Representative for Domestic Poverty & Environmental Issues in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public Witness in Washington, D.C. Originally posted on the RACBlog[Editor's Note: for...
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Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
by Yair Robinson(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Reform Voices of Torah) There is a story told by Winston Lord of a speech he wrote for Henry Kissinger....
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Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
by Amy R. Perlin(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Reform Voices of Torah) All the Jewish endings come together every year. Here we are at the last Shabbat...
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Aug 26, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Leon A. MorrisTemple Adas Israel, Sag Harbor, NY(Originally posted on The Jewish Week) The recent wedding of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky has triggered a spate of articles...
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Aug 26, 2010 12:00 AM
by Virginia Avniel SpatzMember of Temple Micah, Washington, DC How does one receive the Torah? Not in a mystical, Standing-at-Sinai sense or even in an educational sense. In a physical...
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Aug 25, 2010 12:00 AM
by Linda K. Wertheimer(originally posted on Jewish Muse) We say, chant, and sing most prayers in Hebrew in my Reform Jewish congregation in suburban Boston. And during High Holy Days,...
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Aug 24, 2010 12:00 AM
by Larry Kaufman A current discussion on the Union's worship listserv started with a simple question about Reform practice vis-a-vis hakafa-- marching around the sanctuary with the Torah before reading...
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Aug 24, 2010 12:00 AM
by David M. Frank(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Reform Voices of Torah) Indeed, understanding is a central theme of Ki Tavo. Moses assembles the Israelites and, pointing out...
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Aug 24, 2010 12:00 AM
by JanetheWriterOriginally posted on JanetheWriter Writes... With my mother's death earlier this summer, I've become my family's "Keeper of the Yahrzeit List." So, while some of my friends may be...
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Aug 24, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Now available from URJ Books & MusicOrder Now! It was forbidden to allow the posthumous destruction of Man,...
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